Brain Tuner!

[MBHockey]

Brain Tuner (http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=287360582&mt=8) is an addictive basic arithmetic game (it's free). You try to do the questions as fast as you can (you can do 20 or 100), but be sure to not go too fast because you get a 5 second penalty tacked on for every wrong answer!

I just downloaded it yesterday and my best time is 13.786474 seconds (20 questions). The app's icon is pretty awesome, too :)

Does anyone else like this game as much as me?

[Doctor Q]

A great way to prevent your brain from wasting valuable CPU cycles.

[khong1010]

my best time for 20 problems is 9.854105 seconds..^_^

[dukebound85]

i got 15.7

[MBHockey]

my best time for 20 problems is 9.854105 seconds..^_^

Nice! I'll have to try and beat that when I get some free time.

I wonder if they plan on making a version with more features since it's called "Lite" on the main screen of the app.

Edit: Got down to 11.something today. Gettin' closer! :)

[BrittQ]

This app is addicting. I just got it today.

Does anyone else have a negative(-) sign before their Best Time?

Mine says "Best Time: -13.920" I don't remember seeing this "-" before I got this score... and its not their next to my 100 problems score...:confused:

[Eric Isaacson]

I downloaded this but I haven't tried it yet. Looks like I'll have to give it a try soon

Eric

[MBHockey]

This app is addicting. I just got it today.

Does anyone else have a negative(-) sign before their Best Time?

Mine says "Best Time: -13.920" I don't remember seeing this "-" before I got this score... and its not their next to my 100 problems score...:confused:

I haven't seen a negative sign on mine:

[GigiLady]

love this game, it's so friggin addicting! I've gotten 26 seconds and thought that was good, but guess not...

[DaveTo]

my best time for 20 problems is 9.854105 seconds..^_^

Arghh.. My best is:

http://img383.imageshack.us/img383/3854/photojz0.jpg

[ammcfc]

Look, what my wife is doing with this game....100 for only 64s :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c07oDD-NC1Y
The video was made with iphone.... :)

[snverhallen]

Look, what my wife is doing with this game....100 for only 64s :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c07oDD-NC1Y
The video was made with iphone.... :)

How did you record video with the iPhone?

snverhallen

[ammcfc]

http://www.iphonevideorecorder.com/

[snverhallen]

http://www.iphonevideorecorder.com/

Thanks for the link, but I saw that you do need to be jailbroken :(. Does anybody know if a app will be available in the App Store that can record video?

[MBHockey]

I've never done the 100 question one, but my best for the 20 questions is 11.22 seconds...i've seen other people get 10 and 9 seconds on here I think, too.

[snverhallen]

I've never done the 100 question one, but my best for the 20 questions is 11.22 seconds...i've seen other people get 10 and 9 seconds on here I think, too.

11 seconds that's amazing, how do you do that?

snverhallen

[ammcfc]

Lucky series in 20 questions is very possible. But 100 questions is the true skill test....

[MBHockey]

Lucky series in 20 questions is very possible. But 100 questions is the true skill test....

Not quite, it's very repeatable :). I get around 11-13 seconds every time i do 20 questions. How fast can you do 20 questions?

[ammcfc]

see attached shots

[Opie]

10 questions in 5 minutes is that bad?

[CocoaPuffs]

Here you go.

[iTeen]

Here you go.
You have the OP beat...sheesh thats fast.

[CocoaPuffs]

Just played another one.

[ammcfc]

Just played another one.
congrat, the current record is yours :)

[khong1010]

Here you go.

wow less than 9 seconds?

u r good

[CocoaPuffs]

wow less than 9 seconds?

u r good

Like one said, it had to do with little bit of luck.

[MBHockey]

Like one said, it had to do with little bit of luck.

Nice, that 8 seconds is the best i've seen around! I'll have to keep at it when I get some time. :)

[CocoaPuffs]

Nice, that 8 seconds is the best i've seen around! I'll have to keep at it when I get some time. :)
I did ~45.3 but missed the very last question.

Believe it or not, this does help your brain process faster.

Must break 8 second barrier...!!!

[cjandnw]

WOW
Aparantly I AM an idiot :confused:

[hawkxor]

i also got 6.9 with one wrong.. so I think I can do even better
http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/2698/braintunerez8.jpg

[CocoaPuffs]

i also got 6.9 with one wrong.. so I think I can do even better

Should try 100 questions, that one involves less luck.

[nickie jones]

this game is insane! just dowloaded it yesterday and everyone in my office is competing for the top spot! best time = 12.121162; poor zak:p:

[CocoaPuffs]

this game is insane! just dowloaded it yesterday and everyone in my office is competing for the top spot! best time = 12.121162; poor zak:p:

Umm...I want to participate.

[aaquib]

9.25 in 20
52.1 in 100

Breaking the 9 second barrier is hard as hell!

[Nicod3mus]

brain tuner's a good one...it's on my first screen.

[aaquib]

Sweet!

I just got:

8.84504 in 20
51.45017 in 100

[johnclyde]

I love this game (although using the iPhone to write on this site is another question) ... I was on a plane flight Saturday afternoon struggling to get under 10 seconds and when I got 9.69 (the same time as usain bolt) I wondered if that record would stand the test of time. A half hour later I shattered it with a sub-9.2 out of nowhere. At the time I think I was stuck on 54 or 55 as my record for 100.

On the 3 hour ride from the airport I started getting times around 8.5 and 48. These were records of course... Most were in the 9-10 second and 51-55 range still.

Yesterday I was having no trouble beating 9 seconds and most of my errorfree runs were 44-46 for 100. After setting a mark of 7.502 I gave up on ever beating it and reset my best score so I could set bearable marks again. Last night when I went to bed my records were in the phone as 8.002 and 44.5

This morning I played a couple runs that were 8.5 or so, and I took my 44.5 down to 44.4. I got distracted thinking about something else and duddenly I got a message saying my new record is 6.584140 ... I have no idea if I will ever beat this -- it's the only time I've even broken 7.50 ... I also made a discrete jump from my 44 record to a mark in the 41s ... But I'm sure that will be beaten later today

I love this game

[CocoaPuffs]

I love this game (although using the iPhone to write on this site is another question) ... I was on a plane flight Saturday afternoon struggling to get under 10 seconds and when I got 9.69 (the same time as usain bolt) I wondered if that record would stand the test of time. A half hour later I shattered it with a sub-9.2 out of nowhere. At the time I think I was stuck on 54 or 55 as my record for 100.

On the 3 hour ride from the airport I started getting times around 8.5 and 48. These were records of course... Most were in the 9-10 second and 51-55 range still.

Yesterday I was having no trouble beating 9 seconds and most of my errorfree runs were 44-46 for 100. After setting a mark of 7.502 I gave up on ever beating it and reset my best score so I could set bearable marks again. Last night when I went to bed my records were in the phone as 8.002 and 44.5

This morning I played a couple runs that were 8.5 or so, and I took my 44.5 down to 44.4. I got distracted thinking about something else and duddenly I got a message saying my new record is 6.584140 ... I have no idea if I will ever beat this -- it's the only time I've even broken 7.50 ... I also made a discrete jump from my 44 record to a mark in the 41s ... But I'm sure that will be beaten later today

I love this game
20 questions is just luck after certain level, if it happen that you run into a very lucky set of questions where right and wrong are all falling together =). Average speed around 8.5 is good, but 6.58 has more to do with luck than faster brain speed.

[brueda1212]

My best scores are:

20 Problems: 8.641071 seconds
100 Problems: 53.953766 seconds

[johnclyde]

20 questions is just luck after certain level, if it happen that you run into a very lucky set of questions where right and wrong are all falling together =). Average speed around 8.5 is good, but 6.58 has more to do with luck than faster brain speed.

this morning i beat 7.5 in my first try and got < 7.1 within the next 4 tries. I'd say the daily improvement is statistically significant ;-)

oh yeah, i did a run with 95% accuracy in 6.60 around the same time

haven't played 100q today, but i'm sure 41s is going down

[johnclyde]

this morning i beat 7.5 in my first try and got < 7.1 within the next 4 tries. I'd say the daily improvement is statistically significant ;-)

oh yeah, i did a run with 95% accuracy in 6.60 around the same time

haven't played 100q today, but i'm sure 41s is going down

dangit .. 1st try, 38.946474 seconds, 99% accuracy :(

[johnclyde]

dangit .. 1st try, 38.946474 seconds, 99% accuracy :(

well ... 40.580108 + 0 penalty will have to be the record for now.

In any event my record from 36 hours ago (44.x) is now something I'm beating every time..

ETA: I really wish they would put in an option for what penalty to apply on wrong answers. 5 seconds is an eternity. Adding 1.5-2 seconds on a 100q run would keep it interesting.

[Macgirl87]

Oh, man oh man.... Thank you for this tip! I don't want to let my brain rot and this is the ticket.:eek:

[Pennine]

i've just downloaded it and its great :)

[CocoaPuffs]

well ... 40.580108 + 0 penalty will have to be the record for now.

In any event my record from 36 hours ago (44.x) is now something I'm beating every time..

ETA: I really wish they would put in an option for what penalty to apply on wrong answers. 5 seconds is an eternity. Adding 1.5-2 seconds on a 100q run would keep it interesting.
You're not doing math anymore, you're just memorizing the number combination.

Ok, this game is no longer fun.

[johnclyde]

You're not doing math anymore, you're just memorizing the number combination.

Ok, this game is no longer fun.

i was doing math before? i learned addition subtraction and multiplication 26 years ago, i didn't just pick those skills up when i downloaded this game last week. this game isn't about math, it's about making a quick yes or no decision 20 times really really fast and not screwing up.

anyways, the game just started getting fun. my average time decreases by about .02 seconds per question every day, indicating that my brain is getting "tuned". for 99 cents i downloaded the premium version that lets you put your scores online and has a feature for division. there are only a couple people that have posted respectable times, but i'm sure that will change in a day or 6. meanwhile i get to make videos like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVzLCWGMuso

[rca777]

brain tuner is quite addictive. I did 20 in 10.2 and 100 in 61.4

[King t.]

my best time for 20 problems is: 12,72 seconds
and for 100: 100,15 seconds



i have one question, how is it possible to do 7 seconds :confused:

[johnclyde]

my best time for 20 problems is: 12,72 seconds
and for 100: 100,15 seconds



i have one question, how is it possible to do 7 seconds :confused:

basically you have to turn off the impulse to hesitate and question whether or not you did the right thing on the previous answer, and then you have to tap quickly. even then i've only broken 7 twice out of a few hundred attempts. still if you look at the leaderboard on braintuner premium you can see that several people have managed to break 8.

also if you're reading the numbers inside your head that's gonna waste a ton of time. your brain knows the answers to each question and doesn't need to "hear" each one from start to finish before it can tell you what the time is. i read somewhere that if you want to train yourself to speedread the first thing you do is train yourself to read at a VERY VERY SLOWWWWWW PACE until your brain gives up out of frustration and stops reading the words out loud, at which point your ability to speedread is no longer limited by the speed of that voice reading the words "out loud" inside your head. i didn't quite try this, but this closest thing i tried was playing a song (or metronome) and then forcing myself to answer 1 question per beat with a very very slow beat, and then speed it up to where i'm trying to keep up with a very fast beat (it's always kindof exciting to go along with a fast tempo and see your time show up as 5.8 or 6.1, even if accuracy is only like 55%)

lastly i think you just need to know the answer to the next question before it slides under your eyeball. i kindof want them to implement an option to where some of the time you won't be able to see the question you're answering, thus forcing your brain to make a habit of always looking ahead to the next question even while storing the information of what it needs to answer on the current one. i'm pretty sure that if my brain was trained to know the next two answers 100% of the time that would make 6.5 an attainable score.

[CocoaPuffs]

basically you have to turn off the impulse to hesitate and question whether or not you did the right thing on the previous answer, and then you have to tap quickly. even then i've only broken 7 twice out of a few hundred attempts. still if you look at the leaderboard on braintuner premium you can see that several people have managed to break 8.

also if you're reading the numbers inside your head that's gonna waste a ton of time. your brain knows the answers to each question and doesn't need to "hear" each one from start to finish before it can tell you what the time is. i read somewhere that if you want to train yourself to speedread the first thing you do is train yourself to read at a VERY VERY SLOWWWWWW PACE until your brain gives up out of frustration and stops reading the words out loud, at which point your ability to speedread is no longer limited by the speed of that voice reading the words "out loud" inside your head. i didn't quite try this, but this closest thing i tried was playing a song (or metronome) and then forcing myself to answer 1 question per beat with a very very slow beat, and then speed it up to where i'm trying to keep up with a very fast beat (it's always kindof exciting to go along with a fast tempo and see your time show up as 5.8 or 6.1, even if accuracy is only like 55%)

lastly i think you just need to know the answer to the next question before it slides under your eyeball. i kindof want them to implement an option to where some of the time you won't be able to see the question you're answering, thus forcing your brain to make a habit of always looking ahead to the next question even while storing the information of what it needs to answer on the current one. i'm pretty sure that if my brain was trained to know the next two answers 100% of the time that would make 6.5 an attainable score.
Dude, you are hardcore...I wanted to break your record, so I sat there for about 20 minutes playing the damn thing. Then my girlfriend came by and slapped me in the side of head and said, "go do something useful, you freaking idiot..."

Ok, 20 question has became a fluke. But ya, I am a distant 2nd behind you in 60 and 100...if only I have time to train and hide from my gf...

[dukebound85]

i did 20 in 11.1 sec

meaning my brain has a computational power of 1.8 calculations/sec


kinda slow compared to todays cpus lol

[johnclyde]

Dude, you are hardcore...I wanted to break your record, so I sat there for about 20 minutes playing the damn thing. Then my girlfriend came by and slapped me in the side of head and said, "go do something useful, you freaking idiot..."

Ok, 20 question has became a fluke. But ya, I am a distant 2nd behind you in 60 and 100...if only I have time to train and hide from my gf...

I still maintain that 20q is not a fluke by any stretch. When I'm distracted or otherwise unable to concentrate my times come in the 7.2-7.5 range. When I wake up in the morning with a relatively clear head I can get 6.6-6.8 maybe 30% of the time. I honestly believe that if I keep playing another week I will eventually be able to get 6.0 three times in a single hour. It's just a matter of acclimating your brain to the higher speed, like playing guitar hero when the song has an insane number of notes per second.

[CocoaPuffs]

I still maintain that 20q is not a fluke by any stretch. When I'm distracted or otherwise unable to concentrate my times come in the 7.2-7.5 range. When I wake up in the morning with a relatively clear head I can get 6.6-6.8 maybe 30% of the time. I honestly believe that if I keep playing another week I will eventually be able to get 6.0 three times in a single hour. It's just a matter of acclimating your brain to the higher speed, like playing guitar hero when the song has an insane number of notes per second.
I was actually calling it a fluke for your sake. It's obvious that no one can do the 20 question in under 5 seconds, the screen can't even move fast enough to read the question. But there are 3-4 people that record time less than 7, but none of them is recording similar time in 60 and 100 questions.

But whatever, you are taking this beyond serious...

[johnclyde]

I was actually calling it a fluke for your sake. It's obvious that no one can do the 20 question in under 5 seconds, the screen can't even move fast enough to read the question. But there are 3-4 people that record time less than 7, but none of them is recording similar time in 60 and 100 questions.

But whatever, you are taking this beyond serious...

who are these 3-4 people with times under 7? I'm pretty sure the best time anyone else has gotten is around 7.4, not counting the 3.91 entry, and if you extrapolate 7.4 out to 60 or 100 without factoring in the extreme improbability of someone recording their 3-5 fastest sprint times consecutively you get 22.2 and 37.0, which are both times that will have been recorded within the next day or two.

Aside from all that, a quick glance at the last 24 hours indicates that nobody ever plays the 100q with division, and this is only slightly less true for 100q without division.

[simulant]

http://www.gengarstudios.com/scores/

[Loonytik]

Give an example of a question....

[Trajectory]

This app is flawed in that it only works one part of your brain. So, while your math skills are improving, your cognitive and visual skills are not.

[johnclyde]

This app is flawed in that it only works one part of your brain. So, while your math skills are improving, your cognitive and visual skills are not.

ok

[johnclyde]

http://www.gengarstudios.com/scores/

this'll probably be fixed soon but the link doesn't update scores from braintuner 1.4

i wish eugene would download the update :-P

[TuffLuffJimmy]

This app is flawed in that it only works one part of your brain. So, while your math skills are improving, your cognitive and visual skills are not.

oh dang. I guess I'll have to stop relying on my phone for expanding my brain. :rolleyes:

[CocoaPuffs]

this'll probably be fixed soon but the link doesn't update scores from braintuner 1.4

i wish eugene would download the update :-P

Wow, you're still going at it. Curious what you expect to gain from this, world championship trophy? =)

[johnclyde]

Wow, you're still going at it. Curious what you expect to gain from this, world championship trophy? =)

i want a brain so powerful i can grade every 1st graders math homework in the whole world in a single day

[luckygyrl83]

WOW
Aparantly I AM an idiot :confused:

You are not alone. lol Mine is currently 26 sec for 20 questions. Must try the 100 problems one day.

[rca777]

My times are now
7.63
24.4
44.3
Not bad, but I think I will improve a bit when I get my own i-phone- I only get to try when my son lets me borrow his phone. lol

[amogh]

I am a newbie to this forum and this is my first post. Here are my times

20 : 7.8913
60 : 26.6881
100 : 46.7673

@rca777 : awesome timings you have got there !! :)